C10 Storms abroad

"Hey, how will you train people who are older than you? They aren't going to nod and accept your words, you're younger than them." Ataraxes' smug face darkens my page "my daughter was telling me about the day she had." He moves back and looks at my book "the inner workings of illusion? I would have expected something more concrete from you Nicta, something like shadow magic. You seem like an assassin." He pulls a book off the shelf and walks it over, I dont even look at the cover, I've already read it. "page 45 paragraph two of intermediate shadow mastery. "The art of shadows is a mistake of magic and stealth, simply and complexly, in its entirety. Once shadows were around us, and using magic they came within us, but be careful as you look Into the shadows, for the ones who cast those shadows don't play kindly with humans.' There's a destruction spell that is closely related to storms, I want to see if I can use an illusion to simulate the spell, but in a wider range. If that's the case, when I use light-rain storm, can it be bolstered by an illusion, can I keep it from being seen? You can't help me right now, I've given my questions to your butler, he was supposed to give them to you when you woke up." He puts a paper on the table, it looks like he's already written it out "my butler could answer these questions. What are you trying to do, light-rain storm is a superior magic, you can't even use magic yet, and beside that it's a multi element magic, which means that you'll need to use multiple elements in its creation." I can use minor magics already, my mother taught me, but I'm still a far stretch from intermediate mastery. After that I have to reach adeptness and superiority, before finally becoming an authority, or magic master. Only authorities can sanction the creation of a new magic but they all stay in the sunken tower and never have any contact with normal people. I might be able to get in using Celestes name, but I don't know enough about magic to need to go yet. I pack the writing equipment and notes away and put the book in the table "I need to look into this a bit more but I have a class in an hour, I'm taking care of ten people today, and most of them are younger than me, but that doesn't mean they'll just roll over." I feel the sun brighten as I walk out the doors, but Celeste told me that this might start happening.

(Celeste's POV)

The doors open ahead of me and Ataraxes snorts when I walk in "I wondered how long it would take you to come, he's left already, going to a class that he's training. You aren't a very good teacher are you? After all he slept here last night. The maiden of the sun is here, Greet her won't you Book?" A single book falls to the floor and forms a human countenance. "My lady, it is my pleasure to see you today, might I be so bold as to ask why you're here?" I browse a moment and find something interesting, I wasn't searching in particular but since this is here... "what are your plans for my student? I won't let him take over the pleasure palace, nor will he accept you spirit, you are the reason his father left after all." I open the book to a random page and read off, the words aren't in the page but I see them nonetheless "in a flood of fury and frost you will see the face of your pale reflection, and you will know that you were the one to bring some tinder to the coals, you will be the one that lights the fire in a heart lost to time' isn't it fun what you read in prophetic books?" They watch me as I put the book back and finally Book asks if I know where I am "I am in the librarium of course, the one place that holds every bit of magical knowledge in the world. Sadly that knowledge is locked away and only your one master can get to it. Do you intend to make Nicta your master?" He shakes his head and steps back "what will it take to make him your master?" They look at me in surprise "I am his teacher, but I will be so much more by the time this story is done, if I can't lay the base to build a strong warrior then why bother taking a student?" I sit in the chair and they finally calm down, if I wanted I could burn this place to ashes and it is setting them on edge. "have you bothered teaching him any actual magic or are you just leading him on?" I pose that question to Ataraxes, and finally he provides an answer to my questions "no, however he has a very great memory, he can quote shadow magic books to me, he's learning illusion magic because he has a theory about a spell that's in the destruction class, and he hasn't actually done any magic. I think the kids odd enough to leave alone? If he asks me for help I will, but if he doesn't I'll just answer the questions he writes for me. You know what we want, what we've always wanted Celeste. Give me a copy of the rising sun scattering shadows scripture."